Allium madidum |
Allium amplectens |
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swamp onion |
slim-leaf onion |
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Bulbs | 1–3; larger bulbs each usually with cluster of 10–30 easily detached bulbils to one side of base, globose to ovoid; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous; without fibers. |
1–15+; increase bulbs absent or more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as a basal cluster; ovoid to more or less globose; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous; cells in more or less vertical rows, forming irregular herringbone pattern, transversely elongate; without fibers. |
Leaves | persistent, green at anthesis, 2; blades solid; flat or channeled, 10–25 cm × 1–4 mm. |
persistent, withering from tip at anthesis, 2–4; blades solid, subterete or more or less channeled, 10–36 cm × 0.5–2 mm. |
Scapes | persistent; solitary; erect; solid; more or less terete, sometimes ridged, 10–20 cm × 1–2 mm. |
persistent; solitary; erect; solid; terete, 15–50 cm × 3–5 mm. |
Umbels | persistent; erect; compact, 10–20(40)-flowered, hemispheric; pedicels 5–12 mm; spathe bracts 2. |
shattering after seeds mature; each flower deciduous with its pedicel as a unit; erect; compact, 10–50-flowered, hemispheric; pedicels 4–16 mm; spathe bracts 2–3. |
Flowers | 6–10 mm; tepals erect or more or less spreading, white with prominent green or pink midveins, lanceolate; more or less equal; margins entire; apex obtuse to acuminate, becoming involute at tip; stamens included; ovary crestless or obscurely crested with 3 minute processes; stigma unlobed or slightly lobed. |
5–9 mm; tepals spreading, lanceolate; more or less equal, white to pink; margins entire; apex acute; stamens included; ovary crested with 6 prominent processes; stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed. |
2n | =28, 42. |
=14, 21, 28. |
Allium madidum |
Allium amplectens |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Open mixed conifer forests, gravelly seeps, seasonally wet meadows and scablands. Flowering May–Jul. 1000–2200 m. BW. ID. Native. |
Moist seeps, clay soils including dry meadows, savanna, and serpentine barrens. Flowering May–Jul. 0–2500 m. BR, Casc, CR, ECas, Est, Sisk, WV. WA, CA; north to British Columbia. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 140 Nick Otting, Richard Brainerd, Barbara Wilson |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 136 Nick Otting, Richard Brainerd, Barbara Wilson |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Allium serratum | |
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